Mylor

Vera's popularity is a combination of her very interesting dialogue during the demonstration and her use of ordinary blooms readily available in supermarkets and therefore within everyone's budget.

The subject chosen by Vera - Fruit, Flowers and Figurines - gave her great scope to produce arrangements from the ever popular classic styles to those at the more modern end of the design scale. She started by using a small bamboo cane arch and deftly inserted parallel rows of pink and white roses - she completed the arrangement with a striking pink variegated carnation and a variety of foliage and a figurine was the final touch.

The fruit content of her next piece was a pineapple and a combination of yellow blooms of lilies, chrysanths and roses with contrasted well with the square green container and using interesting foliage such as acorns, fatsias, phormium loops and eleagnus completed another delightful arrangement.

Next a white figurine set off a bewitching combination of pink and white blooms of stargazer lilies, astrantia, chrysanths and carnations and three apples were the final touch.

To complete the evening and give even more arrangements to the raffle, Vera then used her imagination to design two double-placements - firstly using peach spray carnations, white and yellow chrysanths and yellow carnations to adorn a small statue of a girl and lastly using two dancing ladies who were the base for a wonderful display of white lilies and cream roses, the final touch being a cane Horn of Plenty filled with pine cones.

The monthly competition "My Favourite Accessory" brought some interesting arrangements and was won by Elizabeth Doidge; 2nd, Jean Frith; 3rd, Margaret Underwood; Highly Commended Joan Irish; Commended Irene Gardiner and Sylvia Ollerenshaw.

The next meeting on Monday, October 1, will be the annual general meeting followed by some entertainment. Members are reminded that subscriptions will be due and orders taken for publications for 2008.